John Muir's last journey : south to the Amazon and east to Africa : unpublished journals and selecte...
John Muir's last journey : south to the Amazon and east to Africa : unpublished journals and selecte...
John Muir's last journey : south to the Amazon and east to Africa : unpublished journals and selected correspondence / edited by Michael P. Branch; forword by Robert Michael Pyle.
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Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2001.
Date
2001.
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N508.8092/1
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English
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lii, 337 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER I -- Preparing for the Last Journey: -- California, New York, and Boston -- (26January 19ii - z2 August Ig) 3 -- CHAPTER 2 -- Southbound and up the Great Amazon -- (2 August 9I - 25 September 9)35 -- CHAPTER 3 -- Coastal Brazil and up the Iguacu River -- into...
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Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2001.
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2001.
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""I am now writing up some notes, but when they will be ready for publication I do not know...[I]t will be a long time before anything is arranged in book form." These words, written in June 1912 by John Muir to a friend, proved prophetic. The journals and notes to which the great naturalist was referring have languished, unpublished and virtually...
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John Muir's last journey : south to the Amazon and east to Africa : unpublished journals and selected correspondence / edited by Michael P. Branch; forword by Robert Michael Pyle.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-315) and index.
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N508.8092/1
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1559636408 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781559636407 (cloth : alk. paper)
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508.8092
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